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PALMER FOR STRINGENT LAW; Attorney General Asks Senate for Sedition Act to Fit Reds. NEW PUNISHMENT PLAN He Would Send All Aliens from Country and Denaturalize Convicted Citizens. TELLS OF REDS' ACTIVITIES Work of Union of Russians Revealed--472 PublicationsPreaching Anarchy. The Attorney General's Letter. PALMER FOR STRINGENT LAW Penal Code Test Case. Where the Laws Are Weak. Difficulties of Deportation. Many "Red" Publications. Radical Papers Increase. Proposed Anti-Sedition Law. ASKS FOR IRON-CLAD LAWS. Mayor of Portland Appeals to Senate for Immediate Legislation.

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November 16, 1919,

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WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.--Attorney General Palmer sent to the Senate tonight a letter inclosing the draft of a proposed law enabling the Department of Justice to deal adequately with the I.W.W., anarchists, Bolshevikl, Communists, and other radical organizations ...

November 16, 1919

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